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Gao Xingjian

"In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Self Quotes #Order Quotes #Mad Quotes

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
“It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.”
“The great Western disease is, â€˜I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,â€™ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.”
“Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our responsiveness. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others. These qualities of caring and responsiveness are the greatest gift we can offer.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1978). “Skillful means”, Dharma Publishing
“I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.”

Source : Source: grigwaretalkstheatre.blogspot.com
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
“On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window”

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